As Mentioned in Yesterday's Post, Here's Some Awesome Examples of the Advantages of the Imaginary Shift Key

The Steno Keyboard Shift Key

Steno Wizard uses this idea to distinguish proper names from their soundalikes and stenonyms.

Examples such as Bill/bill, Tammy/team, Mark/mark, Todd/-ed to/today, Phil/fill.  More examples to come.

Resolving barb, garb, carb stenonyms

Steno Wizard has to use a memory trick to resolve these stenonyms.  Bash and barb from theory days were stroked the same -- PWARB -- as well as gash and garb --TKPWARB.  By creating a mental picture of the resolution, inserting a U in the word with the RB that means RB and not SH, Steno Wizard has been able to stroke these consistently for realtime.

Steno Wizard visualized barb as soldiers crawling Under barbed wire, so it was easy to remember to insert the U in the stroke.  Now, Barb, the shortened nickname for Barbara, gets the asterisk because Steno Wizard has made it a theory principle to insert asterisks for proper names that need resolution.

Steno Wizard visualized garb as Undies, and so the U is inserted into the stroke for garb TKPWAURB.

For the cash/cache/carb problem, cash is still stroked KARB.  Cache is stroked as it's spelled KAERB (kind of).  Carb gets the U based on the theory that barb and garb get U's inserted into them too.  Of course, we could think of the word carburetor and the U that's in the middle of that word if it helps.